Posted by thehoff 1 day ago
They may have learned a few tricks from those teardowns of BYDs.
honest question, not sure how BYD handles this either. but BYDs are cheap enough that if you need to you get another...
(although tesla had casting hiccups with the suspension components of the model x)
I'm looking forward to the IIHS test results.
You know what I thought the Maverick was sized like before looking it up? A Volkswagen Saveiro.
the modern Ranger is the same size as the old F-150
And it’s this kind of thing that stops mass adoption. When you fuel an ICE car, the pump just delivers fuel and that’s that. The price of fuel is prominently advertised and the experience is the same no matter the station.
Charging on the other hand is an exercise in frustration. Charging stations have different advertised power delivery rates; often they can’t meet those rates (is it the charging station? Is it your car? No way to know!); pricing is opaque; charging can stop seemingly at random .. and then you get levied the penalty congestion rate for using a charging station.
My parents asked me if they should get an EV. I advised a conventional hybrid. They are too old to have the patience to deal with all this.
Once or twice over the last four years, I’ve driven to an Electric America charging station to find that it is being renovated and I only have 30 miles of range left and next closest charging station is 50 miles away. That has mostly been resolved since Tesla chargers became available to Ford vehicles.
At least they're not reusing names for entirely new things. Mustang Mach-e is so weird. New vehicle, new name. Good
I think the real problem will be in crashes and insurance. The amount of cars that will be totaled for a fender bender will be nuts.
Steel frame rails, good crash protection bolted to those frames and then a battery in the middle. Keep it simple and repairable.
I've been looking for used Tesla in Eastern Europe. Battery repairs are so rare (I think I found 2). Post-crash rebuilds are basically 95% of cars sold here. 100% if car is from USA.
I got a refurbed Nissan Leaf with a 40KWh battery (replaced the original 24KWh battery) which added enough range to eliminate range anxiety whilst tootling about the metro area.
I think we need car-based ad blockers.
Why do we have to keep making family-haulers for whipped dads that aren't allowed to have a two-seater? Why do we HAVE to force the entire family to go with us wherever we go? The wife already gets the lifted Expedition XLT to nearly run over little Jimmy with at the crosswalk (or as I lovingly call it, the 'F Series' - Canyonero strikes again).
Give us back a two seat basic pickup like the Ranger used to be, cowards.
Love my ranger. ~700km on a tank of gasoline. Easy to work on at home. The factory installed upfitter switches make adding 12v additions easy.